About Anne Allen (The Data Processor)

Anne Allen is a self-published author and owner of this website https://anneallen.co.uk

You can contact Anne Allen at me @ anneallen.co.uk

What personal data is collected and why

  • Identity Data: Name and email address for e-newsletters or contact forms.
  • Technical Data: IP address (disabled in SlimStat Analytics), time zone setting.
  • Profile Data: Preferences, feedback, and survey response.
  • Marketing and Communications Data: Your marketing and communication preferences from the author.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on this website we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Contact forms

This website uses the Contact Form 7 WordPress Plugin. When you voluntarily submit data using the contact form, your name, email, and message is captured and sent to Anne Allen. Your details will be used to process your message and only kept for the length of time needed to process it, and definitely no longer than 12 months.

The information that you send via the contact form will not be used for marketing purposes.

Marketing Communications

You will only receive marketing communication from Anne Allen, if you have:

Voluntarily provided her with your details and ticked the box providing consent for Anne to send you marketing communications and in each case you have not opted out of receiving that marketing. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking ‘unsubscribe’ at the bottom of the email.

E-Newsletters

Anne uses Mailchimp for her author e-newsletter, and it is a double opt-in. You will only receive the e-newsletter from Anne, if you have provided consent. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking ‘unsubscribe’ at the bottom of the email.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

Before the Website places Cookies on your computer, you will be presented with a message bar requesting your consent to set those Cookies.

By giving your consent to the placing of Cookies, you are enabling www.anneallen.co.uk to provide a better experience and service to you. You may, if you wish, deny consent to the placing of Cookies; however certain features of the Website may not function fully or as intended.

For example, if you leave a comment on this website you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

Please note that most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you have visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

This website uses the WordPress Plugin SlimStat to count the number of visitors to the website. The Privacy Mode is enabled which means that your IP addresses is masked to comply with EU GDPR. Cookies have also been disabled for SlimStat.

Disclosure of your personal data

Anne Allen will only legally disclose your personal data to the following parties located in the UK and the European Economic Area (EEA) for the reasons explained below:

Service Providers (IT and System administration) The website owner may employ third party IT companies to manage this website and systems. Any company or individual used will be GDPR compliant.

Third party services providers outside of the EEA

Countries outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) do not always offer the same levels of protection to your personal data, so European Law has prohibited transfers of personal data outside of the EEA unless the transfer meets the criteria.

Anne Allen currently uses the following third party service providers which are based outside of the EEA.

 Provider Use Location Link to their Privacy Policy Privacy Shield
MailChimp

(The Rocket Science Group LLC )

E-Newsletter USA mailchimp.com/legal/privacy privacyshield.gov

How long your data is retained

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

If you sign-up for the e-newsletter, this is kept, until you asked to be unsubscribed, at which point you will be operantly removed from the mailing list.

If you send a message via the contact form, the data will be held whilst your message is being responded to and deleted within 12 months from being sent.

What rights you have over your data

If you have have left comments on this website, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data that is held about you, including any data you have provided . You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. You can also unsubscribe from any e-newsletters using the unsubscribe button at the end of the email. Alternatively, please email me @ anneallen.co.uk

How your data is protected

This website uses a firewall and has security plugins enabled.

Policy updated on 29 May 2018